Little things are the cutest

Just finished a baby cardigan for a friend of mine last week.
It's just rather cute, its so tiny and bitty and adorable.
It's in a lovely pale green (as we didn't know what flavour bump would be)

If you fancy making it yourself you can find the pattern here... http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/puerperium-cardigan

Game of Thrones - Here be Dragons, and SPOILERS (Books vs TV)

So Im lying here, trying yo go to sleep, and tonights Season 4 finale of GoT's is circling around in my head. (Please excuse the poor grammer/ spelling, I really should have been asleep a while ago!) And yes I know this isn't knitting related, but I was knitting as I watched it, so that TOTALLY counts! 

I know at this point they're making a lot of changes between the books and the TV show, and in order to stay sane and still enjoy both I should treat them as two srperate entities, but Im rubbish at compartmentalising.

So here's my thoughts, from a book readers perspective...

1) Other than the wisdom of riding your cavalry through the woods, I loved Stanis turning up at the wall. It looked amazing.  Properly breath taking.  No issues here at all (Ok, except Davos being there, which is fine 'cos I loves him,  and seriously did Stanis hace his wife and daughter in amongst his cavalry men as they got there pretty damn quick? Oh and no Val, Dala, baby etc... but again, understandable)

2) Brienne/ Arya / The Hound
Ok, I could quibble about this, but Im not going to. It was brutal. Properly gory. And finger bitting to watch. They've made us love Brienne and The Hound, so there was no winning here, which I loved. And the scene with Arya and The Hound... Perfection.

3) Daenarys. I want her gown. I had the feels when she locked the dragons away. It was done brilliantly. (Although, as an aside, isnt Viseryon white in the books?)

Then I run into trouble.. and if you havent read the books, skip this bit.

4) The Mountain & Qyburn - Because theyve introduced Qyburn to Kings Landing early, you have him trying to save The Mountain. In the books its Pycelle trying to save the Mountain and failing. We believe in the books the mountain dies, his head gets sent to Dorne (we believe) its only later we begin to doubt this. So they're changing things around here, and Im curioys to see how that will go. Not a complaint.  I can live with the changes, and I understand them. But it does raise questions.

5) Beyond the Wall - No coldhands?! Killing Jojen?! And was it just me who felt the reveal of the three eyed raven was rushed?! Plus, he was not nearly gross or horrific enough! The fight with the skellingtons was cool, but it just felt too rushed for me. Also Bran in the show is pretty much fully caught up with book Brsn so what now?

6) Tyrion - Now for me this felt really rushed, and my biggest complaint.  No mention at all of Tysha, which I get (cut charachters/ save time)  but Tyrion & Jaime parted as friends. This means Tyrion still believes he gas Jaime in his corner. No coversation about "Where Whores Go", all in all it just didnt feel tragic enough. Plus, Varys, you suck at disguise! Like no one will mention to Cerci that they saw you boarding a boat with a big box!!

7) The missing charachter.  Well I'd kind of forgotten we were expecting her, and I frankly dont care as it means other storylines can continue for a while. She'll turn up when she's ready!

And thats it. Im done. Maybe I can sleep now.

Spot the owls!

My current WIP. Getting there slowly but surely. 

Knitting Blindness

Sorry I've been so quiet, I managed to mess up my current project, and I spent two weeks staring at it unable to figure out I'd got wrong.

Turns out I was miss counting what row I was on and that I hadn't gone wrong at all.

Don't know how it'd got me so confused, all I can think is that I had knitting blindness!

Anyway, back on track now, thankfully, and I shall upload some WIP shots later on.

Geeky Yarn!

So as well as a knitter, I'm a huge geek, and I love it when my 'loves' combine...

There's lots of blogs and posts out there with geeky knitting patterns in, but a friend recently found these Firefly themed yarns and they're gorgeous. I really need the Crazy Ivan in my life, the colours are just beautiful.

Which got my wondering what else is out there in terms of Geeky yarn...

I used to by lots of handyed yarn from 'Snugglebots' a work at home mum, she has some fantastic colourways, the best is 'the Dr Who colourway' which is great fun. 

On my trawl I also found this Iron Man yarn from Yarn Geek Fibers, unfortunately an American store so not much good for me unless I want to pay a tun of postage, but the colours are lovely! 

Knitandfibercreation have some ace geeky yarns as well. Check out this lovely Tardis yarn, and this Bellatrix yarn, but for me the winner has to be Effie Trinket yarn, its subtle and gorgeous. It's another American seller, but I don't care, honestly there's so much Geeky Yarn to be had I may as well just send them my next few pay checks! 

So have you found any geeky yarns that I've missed? Which is your favourite? Is there a geeky colourway that you would like to see made, and if so what is it?

New Projects

After much humming and haahing I finally cast on my next project, which is a gorgeous Ginny Owls cardigan in a beautiful sea green wool.

And because having just one project on the go is too straight forward, the boy has also asked me to knit his 'baby' (doll) some clothes.

I let him search through my spare yarn collection to pick some wool he likes. He chose a lovely rainbow yarn for some booties, and some pink yarn for a dress. The doll is a bit smaller than most dolls, so a pain to knit for as everything has to be tiny, but at least the boy will be happy!

I'll stick some pictures up in the next few days,
But for know, what's everyone else working on at the moment?

To cast off, or not to cast off...

I had intended to do this next, I bought all the wool for it before Christmas, but I don't know if I want to do another huge project straight away. Ho hum...

And the other hand, my son is obsessed with Space, and his favourite planet is Jupiter, I'm wondering if I could try and knit him a Jupiter cushion? I've got some red and orange Aran wool spare, and some cushion stuffing left over from when I made my Lekku last year. I'm guessing I could use a standard ball pattern and tweak it.

Ugh, to Ravelry for some inspiration.